Old fashioned potato pinwheel candy
Old fashioned potato pinwheel candy

Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, old fashioned potato pinwheel candy. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

These peanut butter pinwheels are my great grandmother's version of the old fashioned potato candy–minus the potatoes that are found in many traditional variations of the recipe. Up until a few years ago, we didn't have the recipe in writing. It is one that my mother and my great grandmother.

Old fashioned potato pinwheel candy is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Old fashioned potato pinwheel candy is something that I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have old fashioned potato pinwheel candy using 4 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Old fashioned potato pinwheel candy:
  1. Take 1 medium size potato, should be 3/4 cup.
  2. Take 4 1/2 cup powder sugar
  3. Take 1 jar (16 oz) crunchy peanut butter
  4. Take 1 tsp almond extract

It might sound weird if you have never tried it, but believe me, it works. Although many people confuse the two. Old Fashioned Potato Candy is made up of powdered sugar, mashed potatoes, and nut butter. Our Old Fashioned Potato Candy will melt in your mouth!

Instructions to make Old fashioned potato pinwheel candy:
  1. Microwave the potatoes till tender that you can stick a fork through it.let cool for 13 minutes.peel and mash.you want the potato on the lukewarm side to mix sugar in.
  2. Using a mixer, add sugar one cup a time, it will turn to liquid keep adding sugar till firm dough. Now on wax paper, sprinkle powder sugar on paper..half the dough, put one half on paper, spread on with rolling pin in to a square .i used a cookie sheet to help shap the dough.. NOTE YOU MAY NEED TO ADD SUGAR OR Minus some sugar. Depends on how warm that POTATO is.
  3. Now spread peanut butter even on top of dough, thick layer. Cut in half long way.
  4. Leave both pieces on paper, on one side roll dough in to pin wheels .
  5. Repeat next half of dough. and do this again with remaining dough. When done place in refrigerator for 4 hours. After the 4 hours or over night. Cut into slices, about 1/2 inch thick. should make around 3 1/2 dozen or more.
  6. Ready to eat, this can be sweet. but oh so good. enjoy old fashioned candy
  7. Make sure the potatoe is 3/4 cup

This is an old fashioned candy recipe that I've received a lot of requests for. Mama said her Mama Reed used to make it around the holidays for all the kids. I've also seen folks roll out little balls of potato candy and dip them into melted chocolate to serve as a sort of poor man's bon bon. The potato acts as a binder in the dough and the end result tastes nothing at all like potatoes. It's just a soft, sweet (like, really sweet), no-bake candy that's genius in its resourcefulness.

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